Armenia Pashinyan Repeats Ukraine's Maidan Mistake, Disaster Looms

The Duran: Episode 2541 Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is steering his country toward the European Union and NATO in what Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris on The Duran call a near carbon copy of the Maidan playbook that devastated Ukraine, with Russia now cutting Armenian agricultural imports and energy pressure looming over an economy that depends on Moscow for over 80% of its power. While Pashinyan promises his people the best of both worlds and a future referendum on alignment, Mercouris argues Armenia is already retreating on every front, having lost Nagorno Karabakh, alienated its primary security guarantor, and left itself encircled by a hostile Azerbaijan and Turkey with no credible Western replacement in sight. Can the EU and US actually prop up a small landlocked country surrounded by rivals, or is Armenia walking blindly into the same trap that brought Ukraine to the brink? ***THE DURAN SHOP*** https://theduranshop.com ***REVERSE GEAR SHOP*** Athleisure with Style https://reversegear.shop/ ***THE DURAN COMMUNITY ON LOCALS*** https://theduran.locals.com Join Now Get 1 Month Free Trial ***OUR OFFICIAL CHANNELS*** ALEXANDER: https://www.youtube.com/AlexanderMercourisReal ALEX: https://www.youtube.com/alexchristoforou ***CRYPTO SUPPORT*** BITCOIN: 3JvdnoyWMb93hSRgk58ZstUxg11PW9mKSr ETHEREUM: 0xF39BdFb41f639B82E3D2Bf022828bC6394F533A3 LTC: MGFiMC18ZViF6DcCixMqAAP11TG4tF6Acj EMC2: EXX4KK9pZLx7uiLWnCXtp7iMKjtq6o5b6R ***DONATE*** CREDIT CARD: https://donorbox.org/the-duran SUBSCRIBE STAR: https://subscribestar.com/theduran PATREON: https://patreon.com/theduran ***VIDEO*** RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/theduran ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/@theduran BITCHUTE: https://www.bitchute.com/theduran/ ***AUDIO*** SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/3pMrfPD APPLE PODCASTS: https://apple.co/2H9Hk0a SOUNDCLOUD: https://bit.ly/354ASQ9 ***FREE SPEECH*** TELEGRAM: https://t.me/thedurancom X (Twitter): https://x.com/TheDuranReal?s=20 GAB: https://gab.ai/TheDuran MINDS: https://minds.com/theduran Amazing music contribution from Peter Brown. Follow Peter's music: https://soundcloud.com/peterboy100 00:00:00 Introduction: Armenia and Pashinyan's Western Pivot 00:00:29 Russia's Warnings and Economic Pressure on Armenia 00:01:35 Mercouris: Pashinyan Is Fully Committed to the West 00:02:11 Armenia's Losses: Nagorno Karabakh, Russia, Regional Standing 00:03:19 Armenia's Economy: Reliance on Russia Hiding the Real Risk 00:04:03 The Best of Both Worlds Illusion and the Referendum Promise 00:05:04 NGOs and Media Control: Armenia's Kiev Parallel 00:07:50 What Happens if Russia Cuts All Economic Links? 00:09:04 Georgia's Cautionary Tale: EU Money Cannot Replace Organic Ties 00:11:18 The Azerbaijan and Turkey Threat: Armenia's Existential Risk 00:13:25 The Long Term Risk: Armenia Reduced to Yerevan Alone 00:14:26 The Narrative Poison: Blaming Russia for Nagorno Karabakh 00:15:40 The Truth: Pashinyan Deliberately Abandoned Nagorno Karabakh